Saturday, July 30, 2011

FUNDY ORGANIZATIONS: What's a BOFEP anyway?


Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership is a "Virtual Institute" open to individuals and groups that seek the well-being of the Bay of Fundy by: 

Promoting the integrity, vitality, biodiversity and productivity of the Bay of Fundy Ecosystem, and the social well-being and economic sustainability of its coastal communities

Facilitating communication and co-operation among individuals and organizations interested in understanding, sustainably using and conserving the resources, habitats and ecological processes of the Bay of Fundy.

LINKS

BoFEP ~ History , vision, organization,committees, agreements and forms
Join ~ Become a partner
Working Groups ~ Organization, objectives & activities
Resources ~ Publications, bibliographies, awards and more.
Workshops ~ Bay of Fundy Science Workshops
What's New? ~ News from Fundy & beyond - recent updates to this site
Calendars ~ Calendar & regional events
Links ~ Fundy information and regional organizations
Partners' Pages ~ Activities of partners in the Fundy Watershed

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ENTERTAINMENT: Lorne Elliot at Sunbury Shores

SUNDAY EVENING
Needed... Folks Willing to Laugh!!

Summer's Been Great ..... This Will Make It Even Better



Also Upcoming At Sunbury Shores

Tuesday Talk - Mike Capstick 7:00pm
Afghanistan....Heading up an NGO is difficult at the best of times.
Working in places where international conflict rages is a completely different story.


Wednesday Walk - David Sullivan 7:00pm
The St Andrews Waterfront - Then and Now. Join David on a walk
from the Blockhouse to the Pendlebury Lighthouse to see and hear about the changes
that have taken place . Meet at Sunbury Shores.


Saturday August 6th - Leigh Smith Geology Exploration 1:00 - 4:00pm
Join geology professor Leigh Smith on an exploration to discover
the Rifts of Time here in our own backyard. Meet at Sunbury Shores.


There are also spaces available in all of our upcoming kids and adult programs. Check them out online www.sunburyshores.org

Kids This Week Maskmania 5-8 yrs 9:00 -11:30 9-12yrs 1:00-3:30


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Thursday, July 28, 2011

ALEWIFE BATTLE: Saving the alewives in the St. Croix

Posted Wednesday, July 27, 2011 in Sustainable Maine
The St. Croix River

by Christopher Bouchard

PORTLAND – Several environmentalists are fighting the state of Maine in hopes of overturning a law that would nearly eliminate alewives, a fish native to Maine, from the St. Croix River. Doug Watts, Ted Ames and Kathleen McGee have joined Friends of Merrymeeting Bay in a lawsuit against the state.

According to Watts, the law they are fighting has a history that goes back to the late 1980s. It all started when some fishermen noticed that the population of smallmouth bass in Spednic Lake (part of the St. Croix River) was dwindling. At this time, the government had been working to restore the alewife population in the river. The fishermen came to the conclusion that the recent abundance of alewives was causing the smallmouth bass population to shrink.

“Basically, they put two and two together and got five,” says Watts. “They decided, on their own, that alewives were somehow responsible for reducing the smallmouth bass population. Mainly by eating them, I guess. I'm not really sure how they came up with it, but they started rattling cages.”

These few fishermen then urged their state representatives to pass a law that would completely rid the St. Croix of alewives and, in 1995, they succeeded. The law was passed through emergency legislation,